Major music labels Sony Music, Universal Music Group and Warner Records sued Artificial Intelligence companies Suno and Udio on June 24, accusing them of committing mass copyright infringement by using the labels’ recordings to train music-generating AI systems. As per the law suit, the two companies copied music without permission, to teach their systems to create music which will “directly compete with, cheapen and ultimately drown out” the work of human artistes.
The complainants said, Suno and Udio users have been able to recreate elements of songs and could generate vocals which were “indistinguishable” from musicians.